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How to use proverbial in a sentence

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Army Reserve company commanders and first sergeants are where the training rubber meets the proverbial road.
But for now, while Brenda is prepared to grin and bare it, I am going to make like the proverbial pig and wallow.
The old adage that more is not necessarily better is certainly the proverbial case here.
Back in the days between leaving college and finding a real job, my friends and I drank like the proverbial fishes.
Her husband rushed into the kitchen, and like that proverbial knight in shining armor, took over from that point on.
In my little corner of the world, the month of March usually swoops in like the proverbial lion then gently leaves like a woolly lamb.
Yes, the almighty American Buck has been waved in front of the proverbial noses of the planet and even I can smell the money.
He considers attitudes to antiquity and to change in general terms, and looks at perceptions of old traditions and proverbial lore.
She's tall, lissome and very pretty as well as being smart as the proverbial whip.
So finally, one blustery weekend last winter, he got down on literal and proverbial bended knee and offered up a very impressive diamond.
Who, then, was this Lord Chesterfield, about whom all of this proverbial fuss has been made?
She rises like the proverbial phoenix from the ashes of her lunacy to become the first woman psychoanalyst in Switzerland.
Even then, biotechnology's best chicken vaccine may not arm poultry farmers with the proverbial magic bullet.
Unfortunately, the group's dalliance with satanism proved to be their undoing, the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.
But for a burned out cop like Mitch, it was just what the proverbial doctor had ordered.
The common proverbial maxims of prudence, being founded in universal experience, are perhaps the best general rules which can be given about it.
Consciousness or self-awareness is obviously the proverbial tip of the iceberg.
Compare with a semi-auto that can spit out a handful of rounds in two shakes of the proverbial lamb's tail.
So sharpen your proverbial pencils and get scribbling, because it's your reviews that keep me writing.
If someone writes in an honest truthful voice, people are drawn to it like the proverbial bees to honey.
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Examples from Classical Literature
At the moment when Graham had first entered it, it was in its second year and was flourishing like the proverbial bay tree.
The neighborliness and hospitality of farmers is proverbial in every land and clime.
A proverbial expression is often a crystallized lie which we should like to believe.
I told him there were two kinds of persons, the fallaciousness of whose promises had become proverbial in the world.
The whole question seems to me to lie in the proverbial nutshell, and to be solvable by the proverbial common sense.
The constancy and the strength of temptation, and the insidiousness of the arguments it was supported by, has been proverbial.
The family affection of the Jew, his kindness to his kindred, have become proverbial.
Unless something had been done the fight would have ended very much like the proverbial one of the Kilkenny cats.
The women and children are treated well, and Koryak courtesy and hospitality are proverbial.
Moreover, a tiny creature such as a sunbird is almost as light as the proverbial feather.
This bird was a mandarin duck, a creature whose lifelong faithfulness to its mate was proverbial in Japan.
Many things unaccepted and unestablished to-day shall be proverbial platitudes of to-morrow.
She took the witness-stand with evidences of backwardness and proverbial Bourbon verdancy.
It is proverbial that there are certain things which flesh and blood cannot bear.
Of all the ingenuous declarations I have ever heard, this one copped the proverbial bun.
The gold of the Wicklow mountains is proverbial all over Ireland.
This faux fur bomber jacket, PS75 Wallis will have you snug as a bug in the proverbial.
This faux fur bomber jacket, PS75 at Wallis will have you snug as a bug in the proverbial.
His courage was proverbial among the cavalrymen of the Third division.
Making every allowance for the proverbial deceitfulness of appearances, impossible!
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